donald trump really likes kellyanne conway. and kellyanne conway is not stupid. i just don't have the answer to whether trump had any idea she was when to say what she said, authorized it, suggested, whatever. i can tell you this. she does not feel any less confident about her place in trump world today than yesterday. she might be seeing the long knives, but she is not less confident. john: i will really a firm one fact. kellyanne conway has driven me crazy on the show because she is hard to get any straight answer out of. she spends like crazy. she will not address a direct question. mark: not like a sean spicer or jason miller. john: but not a dummy. a very smart woman. the second thing that is manifestly true, we saw through the entirety of the campaign -- donald trump chaos. he thrives on chaos. he likes chaos. he likes to hit people against each other. [bell rings] her,'t know the authorized but it would not surprise me. even if he is. it's with her, he sort of likes what is going on right now. mark: and my point about john spicer and jason miller -- john:

number five, kellyanne conway is not stupid. the answer to whether donald trump had any idea she said which was going to say come authorized to come authorized to, suggested it, whatever. i can say this, she does not feel any less confident in her place in trump world today than she did yesterday. she might be seeing the long knives, but she is not less confident. mark: here is the thing i think. john: i'm really a firm one fact of yours and it will even throw it into context. kellyanne conway has driven me crazy on the show because she is hard to get any straight answer out of. like crazy.-spins she will not address a direct question. mark: not like a sean spicer or jason miller. john: but not a dummy. a very smart woman. the second thing that is manifestly true, we saw through at the entirety of the campaign, donald trump loves chaos. he thrives on chaos. he likes chaos. he likes to pick people against each other. i don't know the authorized her, but it would not surprise me. even as he is furious with her, he sort of likes th

and number five, kellyanne conway is not stupid. and i don't have the chance to whether trump had any idea if she was going to say what she said, authorized it, suggested it, whatever. but i can tell you she doesn't feel any less confident than her place in trump world today than she did yesterday. she might not be seeing the long knives, but she's not any less confident. >> here's the two things i'll add. i'll really affirm one fact of yours and throw it into context. kellyanne conway has driven me crazy on this show as of late, she's hard to get a straight answer out of, she won't answer a question, but not a dummy. not a dummy. a very smart woman. and the second thing that i think is manifestly true that i saw throughout the entirety of the campaign, donald trump loves chaos. he thrives on chaos, he likes chaos, he likes to pit people against each other. i don't know whether he authorized her to go forward and say those things, but it would not surprise me if even as he's furious with her in some ways, he actually sort of likes t

do you put any credence to this notion at kellyanne conway went rogue? she doesn't seem like the going rogue type. >> absolutely not. she did not go rogue. i was at trump tower today, i know her well, know donald trump well. everything kellyanne conway does is with the blessing of donald trump. donald trump was happy with her position that she took. >> what would be his motivation for wanting her to publicly state -- >> especially knowing that romney is coming over there tomorrow. the position is that he has not been loyal to him, giuliani has. i can tell you the staff there is very behind giuliani and that includes kellyanne. however, donald trump was asked today in a meeting, i was not in this meeting, but he was asked in a meeting that was repeated to me, are you really irritated with kellyanne? he said, absolutely not, i love kellyanne. everybody else said she does not do anything that's not sanctioned by mr. trump. the rationale for him to do that is to let it be known out there to people who are seeing romney come in, look, i understand all your pr

he's boxed more than kellyanne conway. he boxed trump in by saying this is the only job i want. >> who does that? >> in the last 90 days of the campaign, there's no doubt that he earned trump's loyalty. i think they're going to find some other way to pay him back. >> he should be ambassador to italy. he should be ambassador to court of st. james. he should get a high end ambassador position. >> i'm of the view that the senate republicans are not going to run super rigorous confirmation hearings about most people. i do believe that rudy giuliani would have a hard time getting confirmed. and david petraeus might have a hard time getting confirmed as well. >> i think they have the numbers on that. >> they think they have the numbers. you never know until this thing takes off. and once it takes off, it could get very ugly. >> i'll say one more thing about romney. i think there are other names in the mix and romney will not apologize and may be a factor. trump likes the notion of romney going around the world to foreign capital

kellyanne conway, former campaign manager, senior adviser of the transition. maybe she is going to watch it in d.c. she joins us now from trump tower. what is the proper line for donald trump to draw regarding his business interests when he becomes president? >> whatever the legal lines dictate, of course. he will comply with all of that. he has made clear all along that his adult children will be managing the family business. obviously, these are not entry-level positions. they are already respective executives within the business, in charge of building things, acquiring things. you have seen their handiwork in the old post office building in d.c., a great example of under budget, on time work that these adult children do, and they will do that. he has made that clear. he has a team of advisers and lawyers who make sure he complies with the law. mark: president obama suggested that complying with the law is not a good enough standard. is he just going to comply with the law or will he worry about appearances, if there is an intersection between public action

we are talking about kellyanne conway here. if kellyanne conway is anything, she's a strategic beast. they want us to believe there is a tension and a discussion going on here about who'll best serve future trump administration and with a possible announcement today or next week. clearly, they did not want to role out a bunch more white guys. they want to do more appointments and nominations in train first that were not white guys. with egoba we go back to the two leading candidates who are both white guys. i they they cink they can get b them now. >> your post reporting that the secret service may now be renting or looking to rent two vacated floors of trump tower. fifth avenue, manhattan, one of the most expensive cities in new york. donald trump commented on conflict of interest and saying there cannot be no conflict. i am the president of the united states. while we are sitting here, going this is ridiculous. >> no more of this mr. trump now you are the president-elect trump, no more business about the government. what does

mark kellyanne conway, thank : you. we will be right back. ♪ mark: it wasn't just the potential trump administration officials at the tower today. the president-elect held off the record conversations with major media types, including network executives and lester holt, and charlie rose. including wolf blitzer and george stephanopoulos. "the new york post" reported tonight that the meeting did not go all that well. they said trump occasionally lashed out at some of the participants. kellyanne conway denied that a few moments ago. trump has done only one one-on-one interview since he became president elect. he has done no press conferences. he has not done any victory rallies, no thank you tour or veterans day events or indoor photo ops since he became the next leader of these united states. so far, every person he has hired for his white house team or proposed for the cabinet has been announced by written statement. kellyanne conway said his punishing schedule is just too packed for him to make public appearances. do

what donald trump decides, kellyanne conway and others will respect. i hear from people who say my parents died penniless, but i gave $216 to donald trump's campaign and i would feel betray betrayed. >>> a warning to president-elect trump and the rest of the republican party from ted cruz. the senator predicting a popular revolt if the party does not deliver on the biggest campaign promises. listen to cruz describe what would happen if trump would flip on the key issues like the repeal of obamacare. >> if we're given the white house and both houses of congress and we don't deliver, i think there will be pitchforks and torches in the streets. people are so fed up with washington, this election was a mandate with change of the most catastrophic things of republicans could do which would be go back to business. >> and cruz stands by his claim trump is a pathological liar. he refused to answer that question and wanted to go back to business. >>> president-elect trump and president obama spoke on saturday. kellyanne conway says her boss enjoys speaking to p

(abc this week) sot - kellyanne conway / trump senior advisor "this is trump's party now. he won states mitt romney didn't. // i don't think a cost of admission for party unity gloria riviera, abc news, washington. the funerals are beginning for the six elementary school children killed in last week's horrific bus crash in chattanooga, tennessee. two of the six were laid to rest over the weekend, including 10-year-old zyanna harris. friends remembered her sparkling personality. the next funeral is set for thursday. three children remain hospitalized the bus driver, johnthony walker, is charged with vehicular homicide. the n-t-s-b says he was speeding. students and administrators had raised concerns about his behavior behind the wheel.. in the weeks before the crash. the north dakota sheriff leading the response to the dakota access pipeline protesters says the clock is ticking on demonstrators. more than 525 people have been arrested during months of protests. most of the demonstrators have been camping on federal controlled land. the u.s. army corps of engineers says it s

>>> donald trump's transition is a chaotic mess, kellyanne conway's weighs in and why the journalists she deals with totally misjudged the election. >> unequivocally and unprovable. if you quantify the analyses that were performed before the election, you will quickly see story after story, the path is narrow, the path is over, there is no 270. >> the media meanwhile ratcheting up their criticism of the president-elect. >> sources tell cnn there's infighting and chaos and the trump insiders didn't care about the transition because nobody thought they were going to win. >> week two, the media is talking about disarray, everything is going to hell. it's not even a month. >> the start of the trump administration is wobblier and weirder than i think anyone expected or imagined. >> and outrage that trump ditched his press pool to take his wife to dinner. with new appointments now for attorney general and national security advisor, are news organizations giving trump and his team a fair shot? megyn kelly on tough personal and professional challenges, including her long and bitter battle wit

she had president obama making the case in a very overt way today but kellyanne conway did it with you just now saying well, okay, word shmerd, indictment by any other names is just -- you know, i don't know why the sort of calculation is that words don't matter but that is clearly the calculation they've made. >> steve schmidt? >> look, all through this race the person for whom the race has been about, whom the spotlight is shining on, that's the person losing the race so we had this moment in time where hillary clinton was trending north of 350 electoral votes, heading to 400. the fbi announcement comes, the race becomes about her, significant downward pressure on her poll numbers. i still think hillary clinton is overwhelmingly likely to win but much closer to 300 electoral votes now. but what secretary clinton's campaign is doing i think is within the normal boundaries of american politics. they're making a tough political argument. but on the republican side, you go back to the convention "lock her up, lock her up." what i call banana republicanism. we don't do that in the united

he had steve bannon as well as kellyanne conway on staff. and what steve did was sort of, as you mentioned, he was the outsider. that populist theme that helped turn states like wisconsin that haven't gone republican since 1984 red. that's what steve bannon did. but kellyanne conway served alongside governor pence as the connective tissue to a republican that donald trump knew he needed to win. he ended up getting 95% of republicans which is part of the reason why he was able to win including turning some of those counties that went obama twice republican as well. that's what reince priebus will do, is that connective tissue to congress and republicans that he needs to get some of these big policy initiatives done. the senate, that's razor thin margins. he needs him to get these things done. >> one thing i really like about this reince pick, this is a man had has demonstrated the ability to keep different factions of the gop together. tea parties, trump supporters, establishment gops. >> evangelicals. >> all these pockets that at some point

these are some tweets from kellyanne conway. here's one tweet from kellyanne conway about meetings that have been happening with romney and trump. receiving a deluge of social media and private coms, re: romney, some trump loyalists argue against romney for secretary of state. and kissinger and schultz as secretaries of state and flew around the world less, counselled potus. it appears that kellyanne conway not in the romney for secretary of state camp. what do you make of all of this, kevin? the idea mitt romney could become secretary of state. >> well, it's not just kellyanne conway and there's two points that i would make. first and foremost is that if you take a look at the last couple of days, particularly with the pick of folks like governor nikki haley, you have a situation in which president-elect trump is showing that he is looking beyond the trump loyalists to include in his cabinet and in his administration and looking to expand and with some of his more loyalist folks including people like former house speaker newt g

as to kellyanne conway and other trump's aids over mitt romney. trump's aid sas said only one person is making the choice of secretary of state and that's donald trump. >> thank you, kelly. the internal debate over this. this is really leaked out of the public arena and the debate over. kellyanne conway gave this comment about mitt romney on "meet the press." take a look. >> people feel betrayed to think that governor romney went out of his way to question the character and the intellect and the integrity would be given the most significant cabinet of all, secretary of state. >> trump is furious of kellyanne conway trashing -- >> there are a dispute. there are allies of donald trump believe mitt romney among many other voices out in the republican party and a never trump movement that romney was a force of one, he and many of his aids and campaigns past were among the most direct and caustic towards donald trump. they had reasons for it and argued principles for it and call for people to not support donald trump and so those who went through all o

what donald trump decides, kellyanne conway and everyone else will respect. governor romney ran for the same office four years ago and lost spectacularly. it's donald trump who won 364 electoral votes. donald trump won wisconsin for the first time since 1984, won pennsylvania, won florida, won iowa. >> both romney and corker will meet with trump tomorrow night. romney, in fact, is having dinner with trump. >>> the vp elect promises some very important announcements tomorrow. steve cortez, republican strategist. steve, let me ask you more on romney. kellyanne conway makes it clear that she is making attacks for those who don't want him. mike huckabee, the former governor of arkansas. what is it that really bugs people about romney? >> chris, i'll tell you, those of us who are in politics, no matter where you fall in partisan terms, we love palace intrigue, don't we? it's fascinating. i would say regarding palaces, the european royal families intermarried a heck of a lot. i'm not sure it was about love, it was often for political convenience. that might be part

i don't think kellyanne conway is ahead of her boss that much. jon: we will look more on special report tonight. bret baier, the anchor of that program. melissa: all right, when we come back, we are going to give you any updates on developments in this situation going on at ohio state university. we know eight people have been transported to a local hospital. police in the area saying they have killed at least one subject. we do not know if that means there's another involved. eight people taken to the hospital, when we come back we are going to update you on the very latest development there. @p jon: fox news alert from the campus of ohio state university where an active shooter has been killed by police, that's what two media outlets are reporting there, whether there might be more than one shooter, though, we do not know yet. you can see the scene is chaotic. 60,000 students told to run, hide or fight. when we get more information on exactly what's transpired there, we will bring it to you live. melissa: two days of tributes begin today in cub

they are furious at kellyanne conway who bad-mouthed mitt romney. then she put this out at trump's desk for us to see their close working relationship. so much to talk about here tonight as we get underway. nbc's hallie jackson is live a few blocks from here at trump tower in midtown manhattan with the very latest from the transmission. nicolle wallace is back with us, and who also started the anti-donald trump superpac. hallie, you're aware the news has been trickling out today of the mike pence announcement. what else can you report there tonight? >> reporter: i think we've already seen, brian, some of the lot more to come that vice president-elect was alluding to in the lobby across the street from where we are, and that is a new cabinet position essentially named health and human services with a top level transition source familiar with the decision telling nbc news that georgia congressman tom price has been tapped for that position of the this is an interesting pick. he is an orthopedic surgeon from the atlanta suburbs. he is currently chair o

kellyanne conway was critical of former candidate mitt romney as possible u.s. secretary of state. >> the first job of any secretary of state is to support and work directly for and advise the president for whom you work. i felt compelled to mention it because it's just breath taking in scope and intensity the type of messages i received from all over the country. and i'm just me, not donald trump, the number of people who feel betrayed to think that a governor romney would get the most prominent cabinet post after he went so far out of his way to hurt donald trump, there was the never trump movement and mitt romney. he gave speeches against donald trump and attacked his character. i never heard him come out and say, i have a problem with x, y and z. but that 25 million job creation plan over the next ten years is something to look at. the factual reduce the capital gains tax and tax on employers and businesses, none of that was ever said. and his -- i mean the romney consultants were the worst to all of it including mr. trump. the twitter feeds were complete an

conway making fun at a brand new push to recount the results of the election. >> kellyanne conway, looking to a new york time on hillary clinton's supporters and backing a and pushing recounts. >> green party candidate, jill stein raising nearly $40 million in the past 24 hours to mount the giants. >> really, political reporters, let me start with you. i understand you got new information about the tweets from kellyanne conway, not about the recount but about romney saying she was getting concerns from trump's supporter for putting romney in as secretary of state. i just received comment on a different topic, that's responding to the criticism that president-electrump has not been receiving adequate intelligence briefings. >> according to the sources that i am talking about inside the campaign, they say that this report is inaccurate and they say these are former members of the intelligence community who were disappointed they were not offered jobs of this administration. they are argue rg that these are formal members of the intelligence community who are again disappointed by them not be

kellyanne conway denied that a few moments ago. trump has done only one one-on-one interview since he became president elect. he has done no press conferences. he has not done any victory rallies, no thank you tour or veterans events or indoor photo ops since he became the next leader of these united states. so far every person he's selected for the cabinet as -- has been announced by written statement. kellyanne conway said his schedule is to pack for him to make public appearances. do you buy that, or is there some other reason he's staying off camera? john: i do not buy the notion that he's too busy to do some things on camera just because all presidents are busy and they still find time to do a press conference. i was not arguing for press conferences, per se, although i think it would be good if he did them. he han't done a speech, hasn't done any of the things you just mentioned. i just think these appointments -- it would benefit him to explain them, contextualize them, make the argument for them. a controversial guy. jeff s

do you share that assessment and kellyanne conway's assessments? >> they will have to determine loyalty. the statements he made during the campaign were combative and harsh, but as we saw at the end of it, ted cruz turned around and they had harsh words as well. ted cruz has been in which has been well publicized to advise the team into good ideas and policy issues. we will work together in the white house in the days ahead. you can mend fences on it, but loyalty is important. who is the best qualified is the primary consideration. >> thank you so much for your perspective. we appreciate it. >> glad to be with you. >> we have an all-star panel. a super lawyer and analyst as the senior adviser for moveon.org. thanks to all of you for being here. there is a lot to get to. let's talk about this recount. you have the green party and the clinton campaign joining and starting with this recount, do you think anything changes? >> it would be unprecedented for a recount. to swing the results in all states seems quite improbable. even jill stein said she doe

anybody has any precedent i would like to hear it. >> dickerson: i will real you kellyanne conway tweeted receiving deluge of social media and private communications, some loyalists warn against romney as so ramesh ponnuru some people see that as the former campaign manager arguing with her boss through twitter not in the boardroom? >> she has given the same advice privately and it's true this has not been done before but i assume that she is doing it knowing that trump doesn't mind her doing it. that he may like this kind of drama. and so she figures why not? i think some of the points she is making are reasonable. it i an incoming president to want cabinet members who are loyal to him who will not make a big resignation in principle that hurts the administration. and given their history together one has to worry about that if you are a donald trump about mitt romney. >> it's interesting that kellyanne conway is positioning herself as speaking for the grassroots and donald trump supporters. and i think there maybe a personal side to it for her as well but it is true that she is millions

welcome, kellyanne conway. i want to ask you first about the president-elect, what he said during the campaign. he repeatedly called his opponent crooked hillary, said she should be in jail, and his crowds yelled "lock her up." now he says he doesn't want to see the clintons hurt. if that's the way he felt, why so much focus observe putting her in jail? >> judy, it doesn't change the fact that a majority of the country finds hillary clinton to be neither honest nor trustworthy, she does have that veracity problem with the people. i think that's very clear. i think that's one of the reasons she was not elected president and he was. but he also as president-elect made very clear including today on the record meeting with the "new york times" that i attended, he made it clear that he thinks hillary clinton has suffered enough and he's looking toward the future and not the past. so at this moment he's saying he has no interest in pursuing these allegations or these charges, and i think that, you know, for those who

le. >> certainly some harsh words from kellyanne conway. a bizarre view that we know donald trump is actively considering mitt romney, as well as others, for that potential slot. now if you think that mitt romney has spent his weekend fretting over it, he certainly is not showing any sign of that on social media. take a look at this photo of him with his wife anne romney and his grandchildren saying no greater joy than making discoveries together with grandchildren. a little bit of a relaxing time for them on the beach as all of this drama plays out, carol. >> so strange. all right sara murray reporting live for us this morning. so let's talk about all this. a lot to talk about again this morning. with me now cnn political analyst and national political reporter for real clear politics rebecca berg and errol lewis cnn political commentatocommentator. welcome to both of you. we've got some hot news just in to cnn errol and rebecca. this is from cnn's dana bash you just heard what sara murray said about kellyanne conway trashing mitt romney.

but kellyanne conway said something interesting. she slipped into the answers on "meet the press" that caught my ear. she didn't just talk about mitt romney. she specifically said mitt romney and his top consultants. it got me thinking, within that world of political consultants, kellyanne conway was outside the club, the club around mitt romney, been around the republican presidential candidates for a long time. she was sort of outside this club. she got this assignment. she ran the trump campaign while the members of the club took shots at the campaign. talked about how stupid the strategy was, how they were headed for certain defeat. she's looking up and saying not only did we win, we won states they could never won. we won michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin. i did something that they never could do. >> she did. >> i think there is a thing here. i suspect this is just reading her answer yesterday,athi there personal thing where it's like, hey, look. i won. i did what they couldn't do. now their guy is going to get the plum job? no

kellyanne conway and these other people sandbagging mitt romney so publicly is astonishing. it's never happened in any other transition in memory. and i -- here's the other thing. i'm not sure why mitt romney would want to take it under these circumstances. knowing he's coming into an administration that has many people like ben or kellyanne or others who hate him, they're going to sabotage him from within. >> i don't hate him. >> they're going to make it difficult for him to be secretary of state. he has the right qualifications, but, you know -- >> go ahead, david. >> let's be clear -- less than high regard. >> go ahead. >> here's my thing -- >> you have less than high regard -- >> i think donald trump's style here is so different than mitt romney's style, and people said they wanted something different. they did not want a career politician, and the reason why mitt romney will take this job if it's offered to him is because it's a secretary of state, and he went out as a loser and now he wants to come back and have a major important role to play here. i get why he's takin

kellyanne conway denied that a few moments ago. trump has done only one one-on-one interview on camera since he became president-elect. he has done no press conferences and he has not done any victory rallies, no thank you tour, no veterans day event or in-door photo op since he became the next leader of these united states. so far, every person he's hired for his white house team or proposed to the cabinet has been announced by a written statement. you heard kellyanne conway, just a few minutes ago, say that trump's, quote, punishing schedule was just too packed for him to make public paesappearan now. john, do you buy the notion he's too busy doing other things or is there some other reason he's staying off camera? >> i do not buy the notion that he's too busy to do some things on camera, because all president-elects are busy and many have found time in the past to address the american people and do a press conference. i was not arguing for press conferences, per se, although it would be good if he did them. he hasn't done a spee

first of all, robert, your reaction to what you heard from kellyanne conway? you were not a trump fan. >> i was not a trump fan. kellyanne conway is an old colleague and friend of mine. i agree with her to a point. there's something to be learned from the electorate, but there's economic anxiety out there. here is another question that america has to ask itself. where is that bright line? where is the bright line when it cops to offending gold star american s americans? when it comes to offending people with disabilities? when it comes to offending people that are perhaps of a different gender from you? people laughed at that stuff throughout this campaign. people embraced that stuff during the campaign. the question becomes, is that something that we have to learn from the american electorate this past tuesday? absolutely. who are we as a country? >> you are saying there was -- >> someone like a donald trump -- >> essentially, you are saying you believe there was a racist almost that drove some of the enthusiasm? is that a fair point? >> well, i think that's

kellyanne conway weighing into it debate publicly. she tweeted about it yesterday saying receiving deluge of social media and private communication regarding romney. some trump loyalists run against romney as secretary of state. conway saying all she was saying publicly is what she has been advising both president-elect trump and mike pence about privately. brooke? >> all right, jason, thank you. >>> let's start there with cnn political commentator matt lewis and politics editor for theroot.com jason johnson. good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> matt, let's start with you. when you look through some of these kellyanne tweets the word loyalist jumps out at me and betrayal. >> subtle, very, very subtle. >> very subtle. what's happening here? >> well, i think there are two possibilities. one possibility is that she's freelancing. that this is, that this is her doing something that, in itself, is remarkable. and politics there's always been this distinction between who the principals are and who the staffers are. principals

conway, whom we all have seen throughout the campaign, kellyanne conway bashed the former massachusetts governor on multiple sunday shows yesterday, saying trump supporters would feel betrayed if mitt romney got one of the top spots in the administration. >> it's just breath taking the type of messages i receive from all over the country. and i'm just me, i'm not donald trump. so just as his former campaign manager, the number of people who feel betrayed to think that a governor romney would get the most prominent cabinet post after he went so far out of his way to hurt donald trump. >> he hurt donald trump. that's what she said. mitt romney, of course, is one of the president-elect's loudest critics during his campaign. he called donald trump a phony and a fraud. trump fired back calling mitt romney a choker, who walks like a penguin. so what's going on here? is there some sort of coordinated team trump effort to put romney in his place or some high-level staffers, specifically kellyanne conway, going rogue or what is this? peter doocy is live at trump tower here in manhattan. who's de

kellyanne conway denied that a few moments ago. trump has bun -- done only one e e-on-one interview since h became president elect and he's not p done any victory rallies, no thank you tour or veterans events or indoor photo ops since he was elected the leader of these united states. so far every person he's selected for the cabinet as administration has been written notice. if you buy the notion that he's just too busy doing other innings? or is there some other reason he's staying off camera? john: i do not buy the notion busy to do some things on camera just because all presidents are busy and they still find time to do a press conference. he han't done a speech, hasn't done any of the things you just retailed. i just think these appointments it would benefit him to explain them, makele -- the argument for in --? of these somewhat controversial people. michael flynn, jeff sessions. controversy -- controversial guys. i think in a brief way to set p the discussion of ha his notions were would help. > my -- mark: my theory is he's

steve bannon and kellyanne conway on staff. what steve did was as you mentioned, the outsider, the populist theme that helped donald trump turn states wisconsin that have not gone republican since 1948, turned it red and that is what steve bannon did and kellyanne cone served alongside with governor pence conducting the republicans that donald trump knew he needed to win. he got 90% of republicans which is part of the reason he was able to win the way that he did including turning some of the counties that went for obama, twice, republican as well and that is what reince priebus is going to do, serve as the connection to congress and to the republicans he needs to get the policy initiatives done. you look at senate, those are thin margins republicans have for majorities so he needs to keep the conference in line to get these things done. >> what i like like areince thin has the ability to keep different factions of the g.o.p. faction together including establishment and evangelicals, and at some point, those against the going w

as you know, kellyanne conway, their central message. i would note i was, as others were, a little surprised right after the initial comey letter he didn't talk more about the fbi. he spent all of four minutes in that in addition press conference and subsequent press conferences did not spend all his time or as much as we thought he might. his message continues to be about corruption, jobs but that omission of not saying the fbi we'll see if he repeats that here as he looks to expand the map. the campaign says internal polling says michigan will ab big surprise. >> okay. jacob rascon on the road on the way to the trump rally. up next, how many times have you heard that word in connection with the presidential race. unprecedented. we've seen things, we're going to try to put them in perspective. stick around. welcome back. recapping breaking news all this afternoon and this evening, the november surprise. fbi director james comey sending to congress this afternoon a letter saying he and his bureau finished their review of the newly discov

anybody who actually thought that kellyanne conway had gone rogue, are they not paying attention? she's a hired gun. obviously, somebody had authorized her to do this. but what i find fascinating is what the end game is here, how much humiliation does mitt romney want to swallow in all this. and the question is, what is he going to swallow if he really wants this job, and does he understand what he's going into? does he understand the palace intrigue, the knives that are going to be out for him. and i agree with david. at some point the media has to understand that all the rules that they have lived by and applied just do not apply to donald trump or this new media ecosystem that he exists in and is enabling him in. >> i want to get to general petraeus. in order, apparently, to have another option to mitt romney, they're going to the first guy who would go into a senate confirmation hearing for secretary of state with a criminal record, a misdemeanor, pled down from felonies, about classified information and deliberately, knowingly handing over classified information to someone wh

what donald trump decides kellyanne conway and everybody else will respect. it's just the -- the backlash from the grassroots -- >> the incoming whies chief-of-staff reince priebus sees things differently. >> it's not a matter of warfare. it is a sort of team of rivals concept if you were to go toward the governor romney concept but i think that should tell all americans about where president-elect's heads at which is a place that will put the best possible people together for all americans. >> part of mr. trump's thanksgiving in florida was spent asking club members who they thought should be the next secretary of state. romney or rudy giuliani. according to a report in the new york post. rudy giuliani was quoted over the holiday as, my knowledge of foreign policy is as good or better than anybody they're talking to and he is been by trump's side longer than just about anybody this campaign cycle. another earlier endorser, senator bob corker who would bring to the cabinet experience as the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. the parade of pro

kellyanne conway denied that a couple moments ago. done a one-on-one camera interview since becoming president elect. any press held conferences, and has not done any victory rallies or thank you to her or veterans day event or .ven in your photo ops so far, every person he has hired for his white house team or proposed for the cabinet has been announced by written statement. you heard kellyanne conway that trumps punishing scheduling was just packed. do you buy the notion he is too busy doing other things, or is there another reason he is staying off camera? >> i do not buy the notion that he is too busy to do some thing on camera, just because all president-elect are busy. when i asked kelly and about this, i was not arguing for press conferences per se, although i think it will be good if you did something. to your point earlier in the -- itthese appointments would benefit him to contextualize them, to give the argument for these somewhat controversial people. michael flynn is controversial. jeff sessions is controversial. for that

when kellyanne conway tells you we're winning everywhere, no offense to kellyanne conway, that's her job. the congressman is right about obamacare, there are a lot of republicans especially after the "access hollywood" tape who ran from donald trump, sprinted from him. especially women. a lot of them have come home. the obamacare announcement has helped with that. we where we are now, until we get new data, we don't know about the fbi, where we were before the fbi a traditional election. a one, two, three, four-point race like obama/romney. >> why is trump doing this? he's a one man get out the vote machine. they don't have the ground games in a lot of states that the democrats have and nobody can get his voters out better than donald trump. so he's got to do these rallies. >> we got to take a break. i want to thank everybody on the panel. we're going to hear more from them later on. >>> up next, how is all this playing at dueling campaign rallying? is there no case as clinton says? we're going to hear what their supporters had to say today. changes to make things right. first, all c

dagen: he listened to kellyanne conway, why he won? because of a lady. it was on, it was off, now it is on again. president-elect trump meeting with the editors of "the new york times." this on heels of big powwow with network news executives around reporters. what it all mines when it comes to the press and our incoming president. what makes this simple salad the best simple salad ever? heart healthy california walnuts. the best simple veggie dish ever? heart healthy california walnuts. the best simple dinner ever? heart healthy california walnuts. great tasting, heart healthy california walnuts. so simple. get the recipes at walnuts.org. sandra: fox news alert for you. we're awaiting president-elect donald trump's rifle at "new york times" building here in manhattan where he is set to meet with top executives there. earlier this morning he abruptly canceled that meeting accusing the paper trying to change ground rules at last minute. "the times" denied the charge. now the meeting is back on. one day after mr. trump met with tv news executives and ancho

i will talk to trump area former campaign manager kellyanne conway. >>> shades of 2000. the clinton campaign joins the effort to recount the vote in three states.

kellyanne conway. president-elect trump said in his statement about fidel castro's death that his administration will do all it can to ensure the cuban people can begin their journey toward prosperity and liberty but also obama's opening to cuba. how will ending diplomatic relations and pulling american businesses out help achieve prosperity and liberty. >> martha, first, thanks for having me. what president-elect trump was saying is that the first priority he has is to make sure the political prisoners are released and the people of cuba know economic and political and religious he is opened to researching and in fact resetting relations with cuba but his criticism of what has happened in the last couple years is simple. it's that we got nothing in return. that by reopening diplomatic relations with cuba, allowing commercial aircraft and the rest that we really got nothing in return. we didn't get those political prisoners releases or assurances that cubans who live on the island would be religiously

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